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Joined July 2025
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If I hear one more person say MCP I am going to lose my fucking mind
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I fucking love humans. Imagine the shit we’d come up with if we didn’t have to please shareholders.
Bastien Dausse, a French acrobat, developed a machine that mimics the Moon’s gravity.
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Career wise, the comfortable choice is very often the wrong choice
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heather retweeted
you can outsource your thinking but you cannot outsource your understanding
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I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.
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heather retweeted
me watching the llm do the job i used to love
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If there’s a clear answer, AI can do it
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heather retweeted
you can just act like your past failures do not exist and go all into with whatever you got for your next adventure
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two sides constantly at war
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when i see codex using python to edit files
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focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of
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fyi, mcp is spelled api
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heather retweeted
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The most dangerous founders are introverts on a mission
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heather retweeted
Dan Kulkov
@DanKulkov30 Sep 2025
> bought the domain > don't want to build this product anymore
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It seems a common experience in the lives of people with high agency is that they, at some point, metaphorically, lean against a wall and discover that there is a hidden door.
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it terrifies me how many talented people are contributing to a future they wouldn't want to live in. building something addictive. exploitative. destructive. something they'll ban their own kids from using. and for what? a paycheck? surely there's a better way to use your gifts?
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heather retweeted
the only thing better than being high agency is being inevitable
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you are vastly underestimating how many people are out there 2 billion people spend 7+ hours a day on their phone less than 0.01% have ever heard of your product create more
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